CHURCH BELLS & CANNON.
A SUNDAY EXPERIENCE. Lieutenant R. M. Alcorn, R.A.M.S., who is with the headquarters company of the M.O. Lahore division,; of the Indian expedition at the front, writing to his father, Dr. R. G. Alcorn, of West Maitland • (N.SiW.),, tells" of '■-. mingling of church bells and cannon roar. > : " "The events of to-day," he* wrote of Sunday, October 25, "have* been in--1 congruous. About a mile away the gun's have been thundering..in great, style, while down the road about 200 yards off the, bells were ringing for mbrning'service from a church with a battered tower. People were walking off down the road past-up on one side, while'we saw. shehV bursting on the other. Don't let anyone have the impression that the-Germans; arc nearly done, and that: there'sj no needto bother.- It is -an absolute ,mi»i#ke,t even thoiigh we do hold them." «"" -'A in in i T tflßw4 K ""
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 16, 20 January 1915, Page 6
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149CHURCH BELLS & CANNON. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 16, 20 January 1915, Page 6
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